NEIL LENNON is confident that Celtic will face no future sanctions from Uefa over offensive chanting.

There will be attention on the away support in the Stadio Friuli in Italy tonight when Celtic face Udinese in the Europa League, their first match since being fined £12,700 by the European governing body for "illicit" chanting, understood to be songs in support of the IRA.

Celtic accepted the punishment rather than appealing against it and Lennon echoed chief executive Peter Lawwell's view that the club regarded the issue as serious and something which had to stop before Uefa hit them with heavier fines or stiffer sanctions for repeat offending.

But the manager said he was confident the travelling support of around 600 – in a crowd that could be around just 7000 – would not attract Uefa's attention this evening.

He said: "Listen, I think the fans will be on their best behaviour. Our away fans – wherever they've been – have been a credit to the club.

"As a club we want to draw a line under things. We made our statement, accepted the fine, and whether people agree with it or not, we need to abide by it. We just need to move on.

"But I'm pretty confident it'll prove to be a one-off. The fans themselves since then have been very, very good in that respect. They self-police themselves."